Board & Governance

Charles Meyers was appointed to the position of Executive Chairman in June 2024 after serving as president and CEO of Equinix since 2018.  In his role as CEO, he shaped the company’s strategy and continued industry leadership, including doubling the number of global IBX data centers, evolving the capabilities of Platform Equinix, building ecosystems with thousands of the world’s leading businesses as customers, and quadrupling revenues during his tenure. 

Prior to Equinix, Charles held executive leadership positions at leading technology and IT companies, including Verisign, Level 3 Communications and BellSouth.    

He sits on the board of directors for Fastly and is Chairman at Level 5 Capital Partners.   

Charles earned dual master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and McCormick Graduate School of Engineering. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.  

Adaire Fox-Martin serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Equinix and is responsible for leading the overall strategy and direction of the business. She was appointed in June 2024 and has been a member of the Equinix Board of Directors since 2020.   

Adaire has established a distinguished 25-year track record in the technology sector. She was previously President of Go-to-Market for Google Cloud and Head of Google Ireland. In this role, she led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally, encompassing sales, professional services, partner ecosystem, and customer success. Prior to Google, she had board-level positions at SAP and executive leadership roles at Oracle.  

Adaire is a passionate advocate of social entrepreneurship. She was Global Executive Sponsor for Social Enterprise at Google and is the founder of One Billion Lives, a global initiative helping organizations apply their core business, internal resources, and ecosystems to form social ventures that deliver humanitarian and environmental impact.  

Adaire is a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin and maintains citizenship in Ireland, the European Union, and Australia.  

Nanci Caldwell has served as a member of our Board since December 2015. Since 2005, Nanci has been a corporate director of many public and private companies. Prior to her role as a corporate director, Ms. Caldwell served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer of PeopleSoft from 2001 to 2004. Prior to joining PeopleSoft, Ms. Caldwell spent nearly two decades at Hewlett Packard in increasingly senior and executive sales and marketing roles in Canada and the U.S. Ms. Caldwell currently serves as a director of CIBC and Procore Technologies, both public companies.

Gary Hromadko has served as a member of our Board since June 2003. Mr. Hromadko was a venture partner at Crosslink Capital, a venture capital firm, from June 2002 through December 2017. Mr. Hromadko has been active as a private investor since 1993. Mr. Hromadko serves on the board of directors of several privately held companies.

Thomas Olinger has served as a member of our Board since January 2023. Olinger is an industry veteran with extensive international business expertise spanning the real estate and technology sectors. He was most recently CFO at Prologis (and AMB, its predecessor) from 2007-2022. He has significant U.S. and international IPO, capital markets and M&A experience which has made him a recognized leader and highly respected in the investor and analyst communities.  

During his tenure as CFO at Prologis, Olinger drove significant scale and scope, moving it into the top 75 companies of the S&P 500. He was responsible for worldwide corporate finance and oversaw the roll-up of forecasted real estate operating results and metrics globally and chaired the company’s Global Operating Committee. Olinger led the integration of over $50 billion of M&A activity,  including the merger of AMB and Prologis while serving as Chief Integration Officer, as well as the public acquisitions of DCT Industrial and Liberty Property. He has significant international debt capital markets expertise, leading $100 billion in financing transactions. Under his leadership, Prologis was considered to have the best-in-class investor relations team. He was consistently in the top three CFOs in Institutional Investor’s All-American executive team rankings and also recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as the 2009 Bay Area CFO of the Year for his leadership and success during the Global Financial Crisis.

Previously, Olinger served as Vice President, Corporate Controller at Oracle. He began his career at Arthur Andersen, spending 14 years at the firm, the last three as an audit partner in both the U.S. real estate and technology groups. 

Olinger holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Since January 2011, he has served as a board member of American Assets Trust, a public real estate company. He also serves on the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Dean's Council, the University of Notre Dame Fitzgerald Institute of Real Estate Advisory Board and as Vice Chair of the Carondelet High School Board of Trustees.

Christopher Paisley has served as a member of our Board since July 2007 and as lead independent director since February 2012. Mr. Paisley has been the Dean's Executive Professor of Accounting at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University since January 2001 and is currently the chief financial officer at Enterprise 4.0 Technology Acquisition Corporation. From September 1985 until May 2000, Mr. Paisley was the senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer of 3Com. Mr. Paisley currently serves as a director of Ambarella, Enterprise 4.0 Technology Acquisition Corporation and Fastly, all public companies.

Patel serves as Cisco's Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration. In addition to leading the strategy and development for these businesses, he also owns P&L responsibility for this multibillion-dollar portfolio. Jeetu combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor and innate market understanding to create high-growth Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses.

Sandra L. Rivera is executive vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and AI Group at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel’s development of leadership data center products for a cloud-based world. She also drives Intel’s overall artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and product roadmap.

Before assuming her current role, she was Intel’s chief people officer, leading Intel’s Human Resources organization worldwide. In that role, she was responsible for greater business results through a culture which embraces diversity and inclusion. She also previously led the Network Platforms Group which was a global organization of over 3,000 employees that drove the transformation of network infrastructure to Intel-based solutions and enabled breakthrough ways to integrate Intel’s silicon and software portfolio to create greater customer value.

Rivera joined Intel in 2000 as a marketing director after the acquisition of Dialogic Corporation. Before joining Intel, Rivera co-founded and served as president of The CTI Authority, and served as president of the computer telephony division at Catalyst Telecom.

Rivera holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. She sits on the Equinix Board of Directors, she is a member of Berkeley’s Engineering Advisory Board, a member of the Intel Foundation Board, and is part of Intel’s Latinx Leadership Council.

As Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Russo leads the innovation agenda and technology roadmap, managing the design and development of the portfolio to deliver GreenLake edge-to-cloud customer experiences to the market. She is passionate about working with customers to help them reimagine their information technology needs and deliver a simple, consumable solution that helps them drive business results.

Peter Van Camp was appointed to the position of Special Advisor to the Board in June 2024, after serving as Executive Chairman since 2007.  

Peter is a seasoned business leader with more than 40 years’ experience bringing internet, IT, and telecommunications-related technologies to life.   

Peter has been a driving force behind Equinix’s success, joining the company as CEO in 2000, before subsequently serving as President and CEO and Chairman of the Board. He helped guide Equinix through its early years, ultimately emerging as one of the largest digital infrastructure providers globally.    

His extensive experience extends to his time at UUNET, the Internet division of MCI (formerly WorldCom), where he served as President of Internet Markets and the Americas region from 1997 to 2000. Prior, Peter provided significant leadership contributions to Compuserve Network Services, serving as President from 1995 to 1997 and in other various roles from 1982 to May 1995.    

Beyond his corporate commitments, he extends his influence as a board member for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, seeking to transform our understanding of cancer and develop new approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of all forms of this disease.   

Peter graduated from Boston College with Bachelor of Science degrees in Accounting and  Computer Science.